Cultural competence

Northern Health BC along with the National Collaborating Centre for Aboriginal Health has some great resources:

Quick 5 minute video on cultural safety. All the same messages that we teach in ICC, using the term that is common in BC.

Cultural safety: respect and dignity in relationships, a quick primer written for health providers

About the term cultural competence. There’s all sorts of scales out there from bad to good, with different terms at each stage. Rose likes the scales which reference a lack of awareness at one end, with something akin to humility at the other. But beyond that, is it just wordsmithing (arguing about the words, not the action)? And why don’t we use these in ICC? Participants don’t want to hear that they are ignorant, in denial, or destructive….adult learning is about bringing people to a point of readiness to learn more to do better. But here’s some examples:

@RosieBarton@TanyaTalaga Name last time that Clerk of Privy Council , highest civil servant with mandate to protect apoliticial foundation of the federal government, so blantantly and shamelessly took a political stance? Lined up with a political party to take down a sitting MP?

@CBCAlerts@CBCAlerts I’m sure you did not INTEND to undermine the truth and lived experience of Canadians, when you wrote “black Nova Scotians say they were”....you meant to write “black Nova Scotians were victims...”. Don’t whitewash and undermine the experience of victims.

Pop quiz. Person with power says “if I did something wrong then it’s her fault if she didn’t say no”. And you answer is “that’s a classic refusal to take responsibility by that person with power” You are CORRECT. #StandwithJody

dis·trac·tion - Real meaning: a thing that prevents someone from giving full attention to something else. Canadian political doublespeak: a person usually female who prevents full attention being given to the supreme leader, because she is telling the truth. Truth will endure.

Canadians need to understand what racism looks like in Canada. It’s not a “misunderstanding” or a “mix-up”. It’s the deliberate erasure of BIPOC from public spaces - shushing then into silence & removing them when they don’t do as you wish. https://t.co/RZVxlqAo8k